Domestic Divas

Yesterday, the girls and I rallied early (5 a.m.) to go to Nampa. They stayed with our friends Crystal, Blayse and Houstyn while Stephanie and I redid Katrina's master bathroom. We had forgotten her birthday last month (None of the boys called her that day!) so we girls thought we better do something big. We both love designing, decorating and home improvement, so this was going to be fun for us too. Stephanie and Jared have done a lot of neat projects in their house, including remodeling two bathrooms, so she really knows what to do. I'd say I'm her apprentice. She's the expert on this stuff. We got to Katrina's house after she went to work and our goal was to finish and surprise her with dinner when she got home. Hopefully I can get the before and after pictures to post later. Just imagine gray carpet in the main part and old linoleum around the toilet. The walls were plain white. We pulled up the carpet and discovered that their was a 1/2 inch gap from that floor to where the toilet was. Solution: install a subfloor. We had kind of thought we might have to do this, but we were hoping for the best. It was actually a boost in our confidence level that we had to do it. We took measurements and headed to Home Depot. They made three cuts for us. We did have to go knock on the neighbors door two times to ask him to cut out a few spots for us. In all our excitement, we forgot about the vent hole! And Stephanie's handsaw was just not going to do the trick. Luckily, the neighbor was home, in the construction business and didn't mind helping us. After we put the floor down, I painted half the room a sage green color to match Katrina's new bedding. Stephanie applied a fresh coat of cream to the other part. We had to get the girls at 3 p.m. and bring them back to the house. But, Zeke and Katrina's boyfriend, Barth, we there to help us with them. They actually were pretty good help. We worked on the floor, applying peel and stick tiles. They look like real stone and turned out really neat. Emma would see us peel of the paper and press down on the floor, so she would press down too. MJ gathered up all the trash. Unfortunately, we didn't make our 6 p.m. deadline, as Katrina arrived home before we were done. But, we finished almost all the floor boards and had the towels and accessories in place. She was really surprised with the whole project. All the guys were there and we enjoyed a great enchilada dinner afterwards. It was an exhausting day, but great fun for Steph and I.